It’s Mental Health Awareness Week from 18th May to 24th May and Dudley Talking Therapy is inviting members of the public to find out how the service can help them.
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS is running a public virtual online session with the Talking Therapy team and is encouraging local people to join them.
Dominic Dutton, a High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with Dudley Health and Care NHS said: “Mental Health Awareness Week is a really good opportunity to remind everyone how important their mental health is. We know some people are struggling during Covid with feeling anxious and low or having trouble sleeping. We are here to help with a range of easily accessible online programmes and telephone support from practitioners.”
The session will take place on Wednesday 20th May at 3.00pm. It will give participants the opportunity to find out more about Dudley Talking Therapy Service, how it can help and how to access support.
Two GPs have joined the Board of Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS as Interim Associate Non-Executive Directors.
Both have been selected to join the Board by their PCN Clinical Director colleagues in Dudley.
Dr Gillian Love is the PCN Clinical Director of Halesowen Primary Care Network. She has been a partner at Halesowen medical practice since 1996 having worked in Dudley Group hospital posts and local practices whilst training to be a GP.
Ruth Tapparo is a GP in Stourbridge and the PCN Clinical Director for Brierley Hill and Amblecote Primary Care Network. She has been a Dudley CCG Board member previously and is the CCG’s Clinical Lead for diabetes.
Harry Turner, Chair of Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS said: “Primary Care is at the heart of all we do at Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS. Ruth and Gillian bring a wealth of experience which will be enormously valuable to the Board. I am looking forward to working with them”.
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS (DIHC) was authorised on April 1st 2020. It brings together a range of health and care services in one organisation with primary care, delivered by General Practice, at its heart.
The ICP has been created from a partnership of local GPs, NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Five Non-Executive Directors have been appointed to Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS.
The five are:
Ian Buckley – a local businessman and former vice-chair of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Martin Evans - previously Assistant Chief Constable, West Mercia Police
David Gilburt – former NHS Director of Finance end experienced Non Executive Director and Audit Chair
Valerie Little – former Director of Public Health for Dudley
Dr George Solomon – former GP and member of Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG Governing Body
Welcoming their appointment, Harry Turner, chair of Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS said: “I am delighted we have been able to appoint five such high calibre individuals. They each bring particular skills to the board and will ensure the new organisation is independently scrutinised. I am looking forward to working with them and their executive colleagues.”
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS (DIHC) was authorised on April 1st 2020. It brings together a range of health and care services in one organisation with primary care, delivered by General Practice, at its heart.
The ICP has been created from a partnership of local GPs, NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
The second Board meeting of Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS will take place on Tuesday 5th May, 10am until 12pm.
The papers are available on our website and can be found here
As part of the meeting Board members will be discussing finance, performance and hearing a stakeholder story on the operation of the respiratory assessment centre that has been developed in response to COVID-19.
The meeting will take place virtually using Microsoft Teams due to Government restrictions on social distancing and the impact of Coronavirus COVID-19.
Due to these restrictions we are also unable to invite members of the public to join us in the public session. We are however happy to invite questions from members of the public on the provision of health care served by Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS. Questions should be submitted via and we will respond to them
The first NHS integrated health and care provider in the country has been launched in Dudley.
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS (DIHC) was authorised on April 1st 2020. It brings together a range of health and care services in one organisation with primary care, delivered by General Practice, at its heart.
The ICP has been created from a partnership of local GPs, NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
The new organisation will have an immediate focus on leading the co-ordination of primary and secondary care services in response to the COVID-19 virus. As an organisation we are ideally placed to support our local partners within the NHS and wider system by responding to the unprecedented challenge that we find ourselves faced with.
The first services to be provided by the new organisation will be Primary Care Mental Health and Mental Health Talking Therapies. Other services will join once the contract is awarded on the 1st October 2020 by Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group.
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